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Which was the first University established in the World?

Where is World's first university established ?

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    Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, is generally considered to be the oldest university in the world.* It was founded roughly the same time as the city of Cairo, in 969 AD. The first lecture was delivered in 975 AD. Like many centers of learning, Al-Azhar University was originally intended as a place of worship and religious instruction. The mosque at Al-Azhar is one of the most famous in the Muslim world, and is still considered the seat of Sunni Islamic study. The university pioneered systems of advanced academic instruction with its hierarchy of regular instructors and visiting professors. Its history follows the turbulent rise of the Islamic Empire, replete with political revolutions and competing religious philosophies. While Al-Azhar University has a storied history of religious instruction, it also boasts a robust secular curriculum, offering advanced degrees in engineering and medicine. As with all matters medieval, historical facts and figures are up to academic interpretation. Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morroco, has also laid claim to the title of oldest university in the world. Europe's oldest university was founded in 1088 in the northern Italian city of Bologna. The United States's oldest university, Harvard, opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, not long after the first English colonists arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is also said that Nalanda University and Takshashila University, both ancient schools located in India, predate Al-Azhar University.

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There have been several cities in Ancient India that had been great centers of learning. * Takshashila University (in the modern day city of Taxila) near Islamabad, Pakistan (7th BCE- 460 CE), was-------------------------------------… world's first university * Nalanda University in Bihar (About 425- 1040 CE) * Odantapuri in Bihar (About 550- 1040CE) * Somapura now in Bangladesh (Gupta period to Turkish conquest) * Jagaddala (Pala period to Turkish conquest) * Vikramshila in Bihar (About 800- 1040CE) * Valabhi in Gujarat (Maitrak period to Arab raids) * Varanasi in UP (8th century to modern times) * Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu * Manyakheta in Karnataka * Sharada Temple in Kashmir * Ratnagiri in Orissa

Illusive One

Takshashila University Around 2700 years ago, as early as 700 BCE there existed a giant University at Takshashila, located in the northwest region of India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takshashila_University And Nalanda University http://www.indiantravels.com/world-heritage-sites/nalanda-university.html Not only Indians but also students from as far as Babylonia, Greece, Syria, Arabia and China came to study. They were believed to be started by Buddhists with the help of the rulers of the time. It is also believed that not only religion but almost all other secular subjects were also part of their academic structure. Scholars from different parts of that time world used to visit, study and teach in these great centres of education. Still you can see the remainings of them in Present day INDIA and Pakistan Among the existing one, Al-Azhar University, Cairo is the oldest. Al-Azhar university concerns itself with the religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Quranic sciences and traditions of the prophet, on the one hand, while on the other, university teaches all the modern scientific fields of science .When Jawhar the Sicilian, commander of the Fatimid troops sent by the Fatimid Caliph Almuiz to conquer Egypt, founded Cairo in 358 AH / 969 SD he built Al-Azhar mosque. The mosque was completed in nearly two years. It was first opened for prayers on 7th of Ramadan 361 A.H/ June 22, 972 AD. Since then it has become the most well-known mosque in the whole Muslim World, and the oldest university ever for both religious and secular studies.

RAM

nalanda university in india that was some 1000 to 2000 b.c years ago

Truly Madly Deeply

Probably Egypt.

curmudgeon

This is unknown, but could have been as long as 4000 years ago in China. But the oldest still in existence today is the University of Balogna (1088 AD). University of Paris (1150 AD) Oxford (1167 AD)

The Oregon Kid

lib. at alexandria,world's 1st lib n univ. 2nd is univ. of florence,then,-oxford,cambridge,paris.

Samantha Stephens

Greece or Constantinople - Istanbul comes to mind. Think of Socrates and the (missing) Scrolls of the Great University of Constantinople. A lot depends on your definition of "university."

34th B.G. - USAAF

That would be Greece. Plato's Academy, to be specific. However, this is generally a loose application of the term "University." Perhaps you mean to enquire as to where the first predecessor of the modern university might be located, which would be the University at Bologna. Places like Al-Azhar are all well and good, however they do not factor into the modern tradition of "Universities," being an off-shoot of the earlier traditions that did not then go on to affect the modern institutions world-wide. Bologna, on the other hand, has.

Thought

If you mean one's that are still in existence then Bologna, but I think the first ones were in Egypt or even Iraq (that was my impression anyway)

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